ESCI is a subset of JML but the ESCI journals do not necessarily advance further to JCR (see e.g. the Youtube video from WoS linked below). On the other hand, it does not appear to me that the journals which will be advanced to JCR will necessarily go through ESCI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWoQnFVoIXA

I think that Journal Master List is a list of all journal list covered by Web of science (all the products and subproducts)

Emerging Sources Citation Index is created for cover the deficiencies of Science citation index, that.s mean, it incldes all journals are being evaluated to become part ofWeb of Science Core Collections (Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index).

I appreciate anybody if explain to me what is the difference between Web Of Science and master journal list?

Dear Francisco M. Aliaga 

All the above answers are very informative. I think, you got the desired information.  

Dear Mehdi Rezaei

Web of Science (previously known as (ISI) Web of Knowledge) is an online subscription-based scientific citation indexing service maintained by Thomson Reuters that provides a comprehensive citation search. While, the Master Journal List is a journal list which includes all journal titles covered in Web of Science.

Althoug not an "expert" in this field I suggest: many answers to many questions on the subject by Thomas A. Ciavarella Manager | Publisher Relations| #fbm15 @thomsonreuters @webofscience in https://www.slideshare.net/StateOfInnovation/emerging-sources-citation-index-a-new-edition-of-web-of-science (2015)

https://www.slideshare.net/StateOfInnovation/emerging-sources-citation-index-a-new-edition-of-web-of-science

A very interesting source!,

Thankyou

Emerging Source Citation index (ESCI) is a part of Web of Science. It is an indexing data base of Thomson Reuters. The journals indexed in ESCI will not get the impact factor. But the papers cited in ESCI database will be included in Journal Citation Report. It is the first stage of a Journal to be included in ESCI database. Moving forward to SCI or SCIE. Thank You. 

Many colleagues have already explained very well about ESCI. This is a content coverage of Thomson Reuters (now Clarivate Analytics). However, the journals covered under ESCI are not in Journal Citation Report (JCR).

Very interesting answers

Thank you all 

Is there Thomson Reuters impact factor for ESCI journals.

Thank you @Mansour. @Renjith, the common metrics for journals in ESCI are:

CiteScore

Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)

All the best!

What is the difference for a journal cited in ESCI and not in WOS? in terms of quality

Very informative answers and have learnt a lot. Thanks

SCI=SCIE=ESCI=ISI Journal...

Clarivate Analytics = WoS = Thomson Reutres = Web of Knowledge = ISI Journal

Thank you very much for your informative answers. The ESCI is a part of Collection Core of Thomson Reuters. As noted by other colleagues, it is an primary indexing for journals that want to enter in the main indexes of WoS including AHCI, SCI (SCIE) and SSCI.

No point publishing your work in ESCI journals unless you are sure the journals will eventually be selected for coverage in the JCR.

The best thing to do is to approach your academic superiors and ask them if it is acceptable for you to publish in non-citation indexed journals. In some countries, any journal that is peer-reviewed, regardless of whether it has an impact factor or not, is considered superior to a book chapter. If you have already met your quota of required SSCI articles and are writing something for political reasons or for a cause not related to proving research excellence, it may be deemed more appropriate to target the audience of a non-SSCI journal.

I found an explanation here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerging_Sources_Citation_Index

One sentence that terrifies me though:

"The ESCI index is called the prestige of the Predatory open access publishing."

Thank you Orven!

You’re welcome, @Omid.

SHOULD WE CONSIDER ESCI AS A SCI JOURNAL?

NO. They do not enjoy equal status

Why some journals indexed in ESCI have impact factor and some do not? How to calculate impact factor of journals in ESCI?

It was also my question, thank you all for your valuable replays !

The selection process for ESCI is the first step in applying to the Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. If a ESCI journal qualifies the evaluation, it appears to be in Science citation index. So ESCI is an intermediate state. It may or may not qualify to Science citation index or Science citation index-expanded.

Informative discussion.

Useful discussion.

Content in ESCI is under consideration by Clarivate Analytics, the owner of Web of Science, for additional indexing on the platform, including for the Science Citation Index Expanded, the Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

SCIE: Science Citation Index Expanded

A list of top notch journals by Clavariate Analytics (indexed by Thomson Reuters). These journals are evaluated for calculating impact factor every year based on citations, published papers, reach of the papers etc.

ESCI: Emerging Sources Citation Index

A new type of list in which journals who applied for SCIE gets listed initially while the evaluation is going on. And journals of local importance also gets included in this list. But there is no indexing of papers in Thomson Reuters and also no impact factor is calculated for such journals.

Does. it mean that one should only publish in SCI or SCOPUS journals

Now the question is what about the Research Papers published in journals not covered by SCI or SCOPUS?

Not all SCOPUS journals are indexed in SCI/SSCI so make sure the journals you target have impact factors

The Emerging Sources Citation Index is a citation index produced since 2015 by Thomson Reuters, and now by Clarivate Analytics. According to the publisher, the index includes "peer-reviewed publications of regional importance and in emerging scientific fields".[1] It has been observed that among the databases produced by Clarivate Analytics, the Emerging Sources Citation Index is the easiest one to get into and that as a result it contains many predatory journals.

Together with Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index, the Emerging Sources Citation Index is accessible through the Web of Science.

ABSTRACTING / INDEXING

Clarivate Analytics: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)

I found in a journal that it is abstracted / indexed in Clarivate Analytics: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). What it means? Whether the journal will get impact factor in near future?

I am agree with Bashar Mohammad Al Najdawi!

ESCI seems to act like an antechamber to a future probable inclusion in Web of Science SCIE with an impact factor.

Your can check below link for details of ESCI

https://editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/understanding-research-metrics/esci/

Actually ESCI as discussed earlier is a part of clarivate analytics no doubt about that, as far as I understand the question is whether one if published under this cat can be recognized as ISI indexed or scopus? The answer is yes its also ISI indexed but with no impact factor (reason of no IF already mentioned earlier) so its easy to get published here under the same indexing but no IF. For scopus , this discussion would not help because its only about Clarivate . Scopus status can be checked separately in SCImagojr. All journals under ESCI have no IF.

Thanks

Does it mean that we should publish only in SCI or SCOPUS indexed journals only where as all r covered by Clarivate only.

ISI-IF is three categories: ESCI, SCIE then SCI. First of all, journals accepted for coverage in ESCI must meet the criteria of:

1) Peer reviewed

2) Follows ethical publishing practices

3) Meets technical requirements

4) Has English language bibliographic information

5) Recommended or requested by a scholarly audience of Web of Science users

Then after that, the journal must be under revaluation for year or more. If Clarivate Analytics found the journal is suitable, it will be classified under the name of ESCI and become ISI master list without Impact Factor. Later on, if the journal get IF, it will be classified under SCIE

Now all journals listed in ISI Master list may not be in Journal Citation Report (JCR).

Journals indexed in the ESCI will not receive Impact Factors; however, the citations from the ESCI will now be included in the citation counts for the Journal Citation Reports, therefore contributing to the Impact Factors of other journals.

If your journal is indexed in the ESCI it will be discoverable via the Web of Science with an identical indexing process to any other indexed journal, with full citation counts, author information and other enrichment. Articles in ESCI indexed journals will be included in an author’s H-Index calculation, and also any analysis conducted on Web of Science data or related products such as InCites.

Indexing in the ESCI will improve the visibility of a journal, provides a mark of quality and is good for authors. Many institutions and funders are suggesting publication in an ESCI listed journal, similar to what already takes places with other Web of Science databases.

For the second part of the question, it is definitely worth to publish PhD works in ESCI journals.

Please refer to

https://clarivate.com/essays/journal-selection-process/

Best regards,

The Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) journals are just applicants for inclusion in the Web of Science database. These journals are accessible through the Web of Science but will not receive Impact Factors. The Science Citation Index (SCI) is a highly selective subset of journals found in the Science Citation Index Expanded. Journals in SCI are typically the most consistently high impact titles in many scientific disciplines.

The Master Journal List includes all journal titles covered in Web of Science. You can also check the by using this URL, http://mjl.clarivate.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MASTER&ISSN=1533-0028

You can always go with ESCI journals, just ensure they are under Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Emerald or T&F, don't get bogged down by the mindless technical babbling from different morons.

Difference between SCI, SCIE and ESCI Journals:

https://www.ilovephd.com/what-is-the-difference-between-sci-scie-and-esci-journals/

This is a new and important index. The difference is written in https://www.ilovephd.com/what-is-the-difference-between-sci-scie-and-esci-journals/ .

ESCI is the staring or fundamental of SCI which will be Progress through advance

Hello respected research,

A quick response as it regards your attempt. Use this link below will give you as supplementary information.

https://clarivate.com/essays/journal-selection-process/

Best Regards

ESCI is a part of web of science

SCIE is extended version of SCI and the qualified journals from ESCI will be considered for SCIE based on the quality mainatined.

The Emerging Sources Citation Index is a citation index produced since 2015 by Thomson Reuters, and now by Clarivate Analytics. SCI has non zero impact factor but SCIE journals are just ranked for impact factor. Both SCI and SCIE are available online. However, SCI is available on CD/DVD format but SCIE is not.

Hello, I am wondering about the process for E-SCI's to be transfered to SSCI or SCI journals. Is it possible for Emerging SCI journals to later be considered to make the cut?

Possible, but there are very few that will make the cut. In each field of research, there is room for only a few to be added to the index. I have seen a few journals gain coverage in the SSCI/SCI that do not go through the ESCI.

The significance of ESCI is that your paper is visible in the database Web of Science and it will count in the calculation of the h-index

How to got indexing Of ESCI, SCIE or SCI etc.

Please give me details for indexing process.

I searched the Web of Science and Clarivate master Journal list for a few journals listed under ESCI. Though they appear in Master Journal List, they are not in Web of Science. It is really confused.

I think we should try to do good research and don't bother about the Indexing, as things are still not clear.

ESCI is confusing ! why this confusion is being created?It is disheartening for researcher

can anyone give the names and indexing of ESCI journal

I think the journal master list contains journals classified under SCI, A & HCI and SSCI. They already have impact factor.

But those journals under ESCI have no impact factor as far as clarivate analytics is concerned. They may have impact factor in Scopus, scimago or snips.

Some information here https://editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/understanding-research-metrics/esci/

I found that Web of Science Core Collection has included Emerging source Citation Indexed (ESCI)Journals. Therefore, the ESCI journals are visible in Web of Science which will be gradually qualified for SCI, SSCI or AHCI. Please check Web of Science Core collection for any EMCI journals those who have accessed to Web of Science, For the list of ESCI journals please go to https://www.ilovephd.com/list-of-emerging-sources-citation-index-esci-journals/

What is the Science Citation Index (SCI) or Web of Science(WoS)?

Web of Science(WoS) is an online subscription-based Scientific Citation Indexing(SCI) service originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information(ISI) during 1964.

ISI was acquired by Thomson Scientific & Healthcare in 1992 and named Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property and Science Business, which became known as Thomson ISI, later it maintained by Clarivate Analytics to provides a comprehensive citation search of all indexing.

What is the Science Citation Index SCIE?

The Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) is the larger version SCI which covers more than 8,500 notable and significant journals, across 150 disciplines, from 1900 to the present.

SCIE is similar to the SCI except for the two differences:

What is the Science Citation Index ESCI?

The Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) was launched in late 2015 by Thomson Reuters as a new database in Web of Science.

This index was produced by Clarivate Analytics since 2017, which includes over 3,000 journals from various areas of research.

Note: The journal’s index in this ESCI will not come with an impact factor(IF). However, each journal in this new index will be evaluated every year and those qualified will be transferred to SCIE.

Hope, this would be appropriate for you.

Please visit the link: https://editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/understanding-research-metrics/esci/

It is really very helpful page to understand ESCI.

Dear Francisco M. Aliaga.

If I am not wrong,

The ESCI is a kind of classification for index journals like SSCI, SCIE, Scopus

Journal Master List is the database that consist collection of index journals. This database can have SSCI, SCI, SCIE, ESCI...etc index journals.

Dear Dr. Ilmudeen, though master journal list has the ESCI journals, too, ESCI is about to enter the SCI and SSCI. Though they are good journals, they have to attain some more standards to be qualified into SCI & SSCI. This is gradually done.

Mohamed Majeed Mashroofa Thank you so much madam

All journals submitted to the core Web of Science (SCI , SCIE, SSCI, ASCI) databases will be evaluated. If they’re successful they will be indexed in the ESCI while undergoing more in-depth editorial review.

Timing for evaluation follows Clarivate Analytics’ priorities for expanding database coverage, rather than the date that journals were submitted for evaluation. If a journal is accepted from the ESCI to another database it will no longer be covered in the ESCI. Journals which are indexed can opt out of consideration for further evaluation if they need to improve their citation profile.

Journals can also move from the flagship indexes to the ESCI if they no longer meet the conditions of the flagship index.

Journals indexed in the ESCI will not receive Impact Factors. However, citations from the ESCI will be included in the citation counts for Journal Citation Reports. As such, citations from the ESCI will contribute to the Impact Factors of other journals.

If your journal is indexed in the ESCI it will be discoverable on Web of Science with full citation counts, author information and other enrichment.

Articles in ESCI indexed journals will be included in an author’s h-index calculation. They will also be in analysis conducted on Web of Science data or related products, such as InCites.

Esci are likrly to be recognised as ssci/ sci whereas, master journal list consists of all ssci/sci/esci

The Emerging Sources Citation Index is a citation index produced since 2015 by Thomson Reuters, and now by Clarivate Analytics. According to the publisher, the index includes "peer-reviewed publications of regional importance and in emerging scientific fields"

ESCI is the initial stage. When an ESCI journal meets specific quality requirements, it gets included in SCIE

As I know, all of the SCIE is fully indexed by Clarivate, but not for ESCI. Emerging, it means that in evaluate process.

Mostly, all of SCIE is indexed by Scopus, but not for Emerging SCI.

Hello,

I want to know about the PAIDEUMA JOURNAL OF RESEARCH, http://www.paideumajournal.com/. I want to know the journal Quartile and Impact factor. This journal comes under ISI journal? Will the article be on this website https://apps.webofknowledge.com/ after it gets published?  

As I see on https://mjl.clarivate.com/home, it is present. But when I go to Web of science, https://apps.webofknowledge.com/, I'm unable to find any info.

Please clarify.

Dear Faraz Ahmed,

Clarivate Master Journal list has a journal titled as "PAIDEUMA" but not PAIDEUMA JOURNAL OF RESEARCH". Please see https://mjl.clarivate.com/journal-profile. The link is given in the Master Journal list for PAIDEUMA ('Visit site") is not working. Therefore, please double check when you send the paper to PAIDEUMA JOURNAL OF RESEARCH. Some times you might be cheated by a duplicate site.

Francisco M. Aliaga usually after evaluation time ESCI journals could have Impact factors and listed in journal master list. But there is no guarantee, it depends on the evaluation result.

"The Emerging Sources Citation Index aims to extend the scope of publications in the Web of Science to include high-quality, peer-reviewed publications. It ensures important research is visible in the Web of Science Core Collection even if it is not yet internationally recognized."

ESCI is the initial step. An ESCI journal moves to SCI or SCIE after rigorous evaluation.

ESCI is the initial step. An ESCI journal moves to SCI or SCIE after rigorous evaluation. A journal can be removed from ESCI list if the required quality is not maintained.

your question is very interesting and I think you may be you have got a lot of information about it. Let me add my opinion.

Both ESCI and SCIE are the indexing of of the journals in web of science (clarivate indexing ). ESCI or normally EI is the initial ranking after declaration in web of science. It falls in a category of journals that are included in this database (WoS) on a trial basis, that is, they are candidates for full inclusion in the database with an impact factor if these journals will follow correctly the database conditions. After successful trial period it will become SCI or SCIE.

Further detail can be seen from the website of the links given by others.